asked him what happens when somebody violates the condition, and he said that we will move to pull the license. he was very clear that he believes very strongly in conditioning licenses in order to get the effect that they want, such as requiring minimum pricing or restricting hours. >> he let it be known that when a licence is issued, there is a hands-off period of 12 months where it they can do very little to the person that has been granting -- granted the license. after that, they can't really take away -- >> excuse me, that was not my understanding. my understanding is that they are not a hands-on.

the one-year period is to establish whether or not you are following the rules. they like to have a one-year time frame of operation to establish that you are, indeed, irresponsible operator before they give you any more room. >> the said they wouldn't be able to take away the license, but they would suspend it. violations can result in the suspension of the license. he went on to state that there are not replacing the traditional roles of the police station, they are still part of the process. it was a very informative meeting for me. that concludes my report. >> item number 18, the outreach

committee report. >> almost everything that we covered in the meeting tonight, we continued to discuss our awardees for small business and empoyee recognition. -- employee recognition. we would like to invite all of the commissioners to think about a local or small business that you would recommend for the small business recognition award. i am really pleased with how much it means to the small business people and their supporters. i also think it is good to continue to look at public employees and the work that they do to assist the small business community.

please think about awardees in the future. let's see. and then, vacancy as was reported -- we have had no responses. >> am i correct that we sent out a second round of letters to the same folks we have sent out of the first round? >> we are about to send out the second round. >> we have submitted some addresses. >> it will show that we have done our due diligence to contact these folks. and then we will go on from then and talk about possible legislative pieces that might

aid in filling out some of these vacancies and allowing the city to keep track of folks that are keeping their properties in kind of derelict condition. it will allow the community to have posted where to contact the owners if they are interested in renting, if they see a problem with some kind of danger or construction problem. i think it might give somewhat of a database on where we are with the vacancies. >> and under new business, we discussed out reaching to the supervisor's office coming in the wake of the alcohol mitigation and other legislation that is hitting small business before it has time to prepare a

kind of input or response. we really think that at region needs to be done to each supervisor from the small business commission to identify priorities -- policy priorities. they have different policy objectives during their time in office, and we feel that it would be helpful if we could assist them in fulfilling their policy objectives and partnering with them. it seems as though -- we need to fix this problem, and they are going to go for the fastest and most expedient way. and sometimes without adequately considering all of the consequences. again, this has come out of the discussion from the alcohol mitigation fee that could have a

very negative effect. you don't think so, but you can't hire those extra people. he can't do different things. in the next five months, we would like to reach out to each supervisor. we discussed office hours in relation to the small business assistance center. >> the small business center -- the city is not taking furlough days, so what the majority of the unions did do was take the equivalent of 12 furlough days and reduce individual salaries based upon that amount. what was added was that there

were 12 floating holidays that employees are able to take, and they need to take this before they take a vacation paid, floating holidays, and they need to use it within a specified window of time. with the small staff having hours monday through friday, 8:00 to 5:00, those are staffed by -- one of those individuals would be off or be sick, as it is dealt, -- as it is now, there is some minor difficulty in terms of being able to have somebody being able to attend to that counter the full time that it is open. what we have done to try to deal

with the furlough days -- the floating holidays, on fridays, the assistant center is open for appointment only, and the tax and treasurer's office is closed in room 110 -- is closing room 110 the wednesday before thanksgiving and the week between christmas and new year's. we will be open for appointments only because those doors will be locked. as a means of trying to manage workflow and accommodating for the 12 floating holidays. we have made an announcement in the september bulletin, and it

is noted on the web site as well. >> that concludes my report. >> item number 19, the president's report. president riley: basically, i attended the meeting with the committee, and it was commissioner kasselman, the first meeting. we heard the legislation the you heard today. that is in it. next item, please. >> commissioners, item number 20, vice president's report. commissioner clyde: i attended the walk, it was very near my house, and i have to say, i was very grateful that the truancy

initiative kicked off because it was a great opportunity to show off the diversity of businesses and the continued investment in small businesses on lower twenty fourth street. many of the family-owned businesses that are beginning to transition between generations, another generation of family members are working and bringing new energy into long-term family owned businesses. it is along with new businesses, there are new business models on twenty first street. we got in e -- an earful. we started to hear about some of the things that are coming down comingpie -- down the pipeline between 4:00 am and 6:00 am,

when no one is there. there are lots of transients, late-night activity. there is considerable concern about the ability for businesses to keep their storefronts in order when no one is there. we are very concerned about that. we also heard about the sidewalk repair issue, who is responsible for them. hopefully everyone will be following up. the other little piece of information that i have is that october is disability employment awareness month. we have invited someone to give a presentation from the community vocational enterprise. they train and place people with disabilities in businesses

across san francisco. it will be a very formative discussion. i am glad that this is coming up right now as we are also dealing with ada lawsuits. it is really important for us to look at hiring persons with disabilities as part of the business plan and really put them at the front of the line. and look at the value of hiring persons. that is my report. president riley: next item, please. >> item 21, commissioner reports. president riley: any reports? commissioner dooley: i have a report on a few things. i have been attending weekly meetings with the owners of the

small pet shops in san francisco regarding the attempted invasion of the neighborhood corridors by formula retail chains. they have filed an appeal with the board of supervisors on the latest permit by the planning commission, so we will see how that goes. on the eleventh, i attended as i do every month, the group formed to create a waterfront plan for the northern area where the sea wall lots are, and i continue to promote ideas for -- that will help the neighborhood corridors like a shuttle bus that will take people from the cruise ship terminal to north beach, to chinatown, trying to continue to

promote local businesses that way. and i have been talking with the owners, the recipient of another ada lawsuit. i know she is very motivated. >> where street is the business on? >> i think it is sixteenth. >> by the restaurant. commissioner dooley: she is motivated to get the neighborhood together. we have to keep that on our priority list. it is not going away.

that concludes my report. >> thank you for working on that. president riley: next item, please. >> commissioners, item number 22 is general public comment. president riley: seeing none. >> item number 23, new business? >> i wanted to bring up the fact that the giants are tied for first place and there is only three weeks left. let's go. >> i would like to second that. [laughter] >> may i make a request? i was derelict in something and i want to reopen by vice president's report if that is okay. >> we will go ahead and close

new business. >> i wanted to say that the response from the small business community has been phenomenal, and i like to thank all of the small business people that came out on their own and organized on their own. there has been some press are around the big alcohol lobby, but many of the small business people were there on their own. there were there because they were concerned about costs, they were concerned about livelihood, they were concerned about businesses, and they are not being driven by paid lobbyists. frankly, considering the lobby that is the public health department, the people that are going to benefit financially should this be passed, i really don't think we should -- we need to pay attention to the fact that the small business people that are affected are showing up at their voices are being heard.

it is going to be very difficult hearing tomorrow, but i will be there to support the small business community. >> there won't be any public comments tomorrow, right? >> is my understanding that many people are planning to show up and they should show up if they can. >> item number 24, adjournemenm. president riley: all in favor? >> the meeting is adjourned at 8:49pm.

>> i have 2 job titles. i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete.

it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest

dome built in the united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital. >> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. interesting thing about the oak is there isn't anymore in the entire world.

the floors in china was cleard and never replanted. if you look up at the seceiling you would believe that's hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. there are no records about how many people worked on this building. the workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. and what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today.

commissioner mar: good morning and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the san francisco city and county transportation authority. we will be joined shortly by the chair of the committee. please read item one. >> item 1, roll call. adding two, approve the minutes of the july 13, 2010 meeting. commissioner elsbernd: any comment on this item? seeing none, motion to approve this item. please read item 3. >> item 3, recommend approval of a budget amendment to at $100,000 to the authorities adopted fiscal year 2010-2011 budget for the purpose of partially defraying the cost of

a management performance audit of the municipal transit agency of order of a consulting contract to the first ranked firm in an amount not to exceed $200,000 for audit services for a limited scope management performance audit of the mta. >> this item is on your agenda packet starting on page 5. essentially, there was an initiative by the board of supervisors -- i'm glad that the chair of the authority is here because he was one of the key proponents -- to do a performance audit of the municipal transportation agency. this was several months ago, and at the time, there was a request made through the plans and programs committee to allocate funds to match other monies that the board of supervisors was earmarking for this purpose. $100,000 got earmarked for that,

and the authority was asked to approve the procurement of the management performance audit services. we work very closely with the office of commissioner david campos, who was the lead on this item, i believe, together with commissioner mirkarimi. the board of supervisors put together a scope of work. we issued an rfp, and were very clear that this would initially be dealt with by staff, but it would be directed by the board itself, and at the time, during the recess, for the sake of not waiting until the legislative recess, we went ahead and issue an rfp for the amount that i have the authority to contract,

which was $70,000. we include the entire scope with the verification that we did not think the entire scope could be down for $70,000, but that there would be a further round of discussion with the board to see if there was a need for more money -- or the authority, for more money. that amount generated only one bid. i'm not talking about one responsive bid. just one bid. i did not feel comfortable moving that forward on a single bid. it would not have been a sole- source contract, but still, i felt there had to be more interest out there than just for a single bid, so we canceled that procurement and restated it in the second rfp, where we did more work estimating how much money would be needed to really do that scope, so that is how we advertised this as a $200,000 effort.

a more realistic sense of what it would take to do this right, so the action today -- that generated the kind of response we direct -- we expected. three response of bids. what we have done today is brought you a recommendation for a top-range from, and there is a representative from that firm today. the firm is ctr. -- cgr. we received bids from cgr, a management consulting firm based in oakland with a fairly extensive track record in this type of work, and we had a proposal also from ktmg, in this case, it's sacramento office, and we also have a proposal from moss adams, another accounting firm from seattle.

the action than would be to -- for you to recommend the award of a contract for the top-rank from that would require -- the top-rank firm that would require $100,000 because that was the difference between the action that was taken back in june compared to the money we actually need. this would be matched by an action at the plans and programs committee later this morning to appropriate the one other $100,000 to the authorities so we can cover the whole budget. i want to welcome the chair of the planning committee, commissioner mar. the action today would be two steps, to both recommend approval of the contract with cgr management service and also to amend the budget by $100,000. let me clarify a couple of things -- amending the budget

usually means moving money away from the reserve into the operating budget of the authority, so that the expense which was not anticipated at the beginning of the year is actually covered. the other thing i should point out is that the preliminary social services, the ones that were actually bid on, are detailed on pages eight and nine of your packet, and it focuses on three main areas of activity. one is the capital program management area. the other is construction projects, and the third is fleet and systems procurement. these are three large, key areas that i would like to highlight as areas where a management performance audit can actually provide significant help in defining improvement opportunities in ways in which the mta can function better to

help us do a better job from this and of allocating funds -- from this and -- from this end of allocating funds to do a better job. things like making sure we have a streamlined process. these are topics that are not new to you because we have had a lot of questions over the years about issues related to the mechanics of having things when they are needed, of planning ahead for the large investments to happen in the maximum amount of money to capture them, maximum federal and state money possible, and it is -- the same is true for things like the effectiveness of the planning and design for construction projects so that risk is minimized and overruns are avoided and so on. these are